The initiative is being planned amid a severe shortage of neurologists and advanced stroke-care facilities in rural Maharashtra Times News NetworkMumbai: The Maharashtra health department is planning to launch a “remote robotic neurointervention” programme to help stroke patients in rural areas receive life-saving treatment within the critical “golden hour”.The proposal, discussed at a meeting chaired…
Congress, BJP-JDS spar over ‘One Nation, One Election’ at Bengaluru JPC meet Bengaluru: The ruling Congress and the opposition BJP-JDS alliance traded blows over the proposed ‘One Nation, One Election’ plan during a consultation meeting convened by the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in Bengaluru Saturday.While BJP and JD(S) backed simultaneous Lok…
Chennai: Despite reportedly urging loyalists not to sign a letter seeking an AIADMK general council meeting, the Edappadi K Palaniswami camp appears to be losing its grip within the party organisation. Multiple sources told TOI that the rebel faction has already secured signatures from nearly two-fifths of council members and is preparing to formally press…
HYDERABAD: Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay’s son, Bandi Bageerath, surrendered before the Telangana police on Saturday night at around 8 pm. He was later taken to Narsingi police station. Bageerath has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act after a minor girl’s family accused him of sexually…
The maximum temperature was recorded at 39.9°C at Gurgaon KVK, up from 39°C a day earlier Gurgaon: The city is headed towards an intense spell of summer heat, with temperatures gradually climbing and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a yellow alert for May 19 and 20 for the city amid the possibility of heatwave…
Falta: With the political scales flipping in Bengal and chief minister Suvendu Adhikari targeting him in his own lair, Trinamool Congress‘s Falta candidate Jahangir Khan faces an uphill task ahead of the May 21 repolls. Khan, who had stepped out of the public glare after the May 4 results, returned to his ransacked Srirampore party…
This is an AI image used for representation Noida: An uprooted electricity pole turned into a fatal obstacle for two youths in Phase 2, after the motorcycle they were on crashed into it on Friday night, leaving one of them dead and the other critically injured.The accident occurred near Panchsheel Balak Inter College where strong…
Ponda: The department of drinking water (DDW) is mulling to upgrade the existing 40MLD water treatment plant at Opa to 60MLD to boost supply to Tiswadi, Marcaim and Priol by spending Rs 29 crore to add new facilities.Technical sanction for the proposed upgradation has already been given and the project is presently pending for administrative…
Varanasi: As many as eight teams of scientists from the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR) are travelling village after village across Purvanchal, setting up awareness camps, conducting demonstrations and farmer interactions, distributing pamphlets on balanced fertiliser use, and motivating cultivators by providing microbial bio-fertiliser kits.Officials described the initiative as the final and decisive link…
Ahmedabad: In a major accident at Sangani village near Chotila in Surendranagar district on Thursday, four persons were charred to death, and 10 others were injured when a private bus collided with a tanker on the Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway in the early hours. The bus caught fire immediately after the collision, leaving the victims’ bodies burnt…
